Paragraph Writing: Using TEEEL Structure

Topic Sentence

While the Muslim empires of the 14th-16th centuries had significant impacts on the world, they never came to dominate as Europe will because of their continuity of poor leadership, religious tolerance, and bad political strengths.

Elaboration

After Akbar's rule, his successors did not follow his policy of religious tolerance. The successors had glorious plans, but had pretty much nothing to back it up with.

Examples/Evidence

Nur Jahan, the wife of Akbar's successor, Jahangir, was very good at being a ruler except for one thing and that she had a political battle with one of her sons which led to many attacks on a group the son was affiliated with. One of Akbar's successors, Shah Jahan, made beautiful buildings like the Taj Mahal, but had to raise taxes because the buildings were expensive to make and the people suffered with that. Shah Jahan's son, Aurangzeb, was a serious Muslim, and so he put harsh laws that destroyed the Hindus' way of life. He fought the Sikhs, but he had to increase taxes and so he only taxed the Hindus, and not the Muslims, it made the people angry.

Explanation/analysis

There was poor leadership because Akbar's successors could not rule fairly or justly. There was no religious tolerance from the successors mainly because they were biased against Hindi people. They had bad political strengths because either they could not control their sons, or they could not control their big mass of an empire. Fighting battles made the empire have to raise taxes, which weakened the empire more, so other groups could come along and take some of the land that the empire controlled.

Link Sentence

With all that said, you can see why the Muslim empires never came to dominate as Europe did and why good things come to an end sooner than you think.